On Wednesday myself, Ken and Bev set out to go to Fort St. John for the evening. Ben and Isabel the Army officers were going to put up a tarp garage in there backyard to store there truck camper in for the winter, but unfortunately Ben’s back was still bothering him. So me and Ken were there to rescue. As we took on the project it grew dark and we had to work in the light of the few light we had. We had to build 3 walls roughly 2 feet tall to go under 3 side of the garage to raise it up so that the camper could fit in side. While Ken was measuring, cutting, measuring and then cutting again, I was working away at getting the frame of the garage built. On we worked into the wee hours of the evening. By the time the wooden walls were in place and the frame of the garage was built it was 11:30pm which was too late to keep working considering we still had over a hours drive back home. So we wrapped things up and took of home.

The next day while Ken was working, Bev and myself hauled a couple loads of water and by the time we had that done Ken was done aswell. We then went up to Fort St. John once again to finsih this building. We moved fast! We got the frame ontop of the walls and secured it down. Then after a lot of pulling and grunting we were able to pull the tarp over the top of the frame. Tied it down, put up the doors and we were DONE. We were able to sit for 5 minutes and have a slice of pizza before leavving again.

Next Up: Edmonton.

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Today I added many things to the site today. The Tag Cloud widget, which allows the reads to see what tag’s I have used and depending on the size of the word the more popular it is. Check it out. I changed the the picture widget to a slideshow style, so that I can add more and more pictures and it will not take any more room. Check it out. A big new feature is “Bushman’s Favorite Recipe” page which includes a wack load of recipes. All different kinds, some day I may narrow them down or catigories them for easy referance. Check it out.

Now my day other than the 10 hour I sat on the computer working on this site and others, I spent a little time out side trying to finish the last 2 feet of the shed roof but failed due to strong winds. I was able to help Ken clean up a bit though. Then some how found my way back to the lazy boy I have claimed as my computer chair. Some day I will return to real life.

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Ken and I started to put the roofing of the shed on this morning around 10am and we were finished by 2:30 which was really good. We were able to do one side in the morning and the other side after a healthy left over’s lunch. On the first side Ken was up on the roof screwing in the sheets of tin, 28 screws per sheet, while I passed the sheets up to him and lined them up and on we went. We were all a little tired and had lost all ambition so with one more sheet left to do on the first side we went in for lunch. After lunch we switched places. I went up on the roof and finished the first side and moved over to the second side. Ken started passing me the sheets and I got into a rhythm screwing four bolts at a time and the prosses seem to go very fast. When it was time for the last sheet, I had to somehow stand on sheets that were already bolted down with my feet digging in to the bolts to I could balance to screw the last one in. While I was atempting this my legs started to give, I geuss I had been standing akwardly on it for too long. It was shaking rapidly, so in a mad dash to finish I throw all my weight on to my other leg. Screwed on the last bolt and stumbled down the latter. Ken was pleased that we had finished the extend of the shed construction so we went for super in Dawson and the entire drive there you could tell Ken was pumped by his random shouts of “Yah”. And now after being in the sun and wind all day I’m half asleep sitting on a lazy boy, where I will stay for the rest of the night.

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Can you live out in the middle of no where? Its hard. Many people over the years have tried to do it and flat out died because they go ster crazy. They start talking to them selves and then the get schizophrenic and end up either killing themselves or just going so crazy, they don’t eat and just starve. For the longest time now I have said ” oh me I’m going to build my self a house off a highway some where up a mountain and shut out the world” I’m realizing that as much as I would like to do that and be alone, you need the companionship of other people. You need to be able to talk, laugh, and enjoy there company. You need someone to vent you problems to and you also need to be someone who can just listen to someone. I know people who moved to almost no where, 25min to the closest town. I guess when you actually do it, it seems great at the time but eventually you start to miss the friends you use to have and because your in the middle of no where it isn’t easy to find new ones. For this I thank them, they didn’t make a mistake by moving and I know they still enjoy it very much but I think I would have done something drastic years down the line had I not had this epiphany it could have been bad. A light has been turn on to show me a new part of life. Thanks

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The last two days have been busy, a good busy of course. On a warm autom Saturday Ken started to build has floor in his shed by leveling the roof, by the time the roof was leveled I dragged myself out of the house to help. Then it was on!……. For about an hour!, then we realized we need some 4×4’s so off we went to Chetwynd Home Hardware. Pizza Hut for lunch Yaha. We got back and got right in to it and worked hard until the wee hours of the afternoon. As the sun was setting we were finishing up the floor and at that very same time….. Ken hurt his back. I know right, your probably thinking ” Fantastic! now they’ll never get teh tin roof done”. So in we went, twas a early night ofr every one. We were sore and stiff, Ken more so than me. I just like to comment that I was sore as well actually having done something labour intensive. Then this morning BAM, Kens doing alright. We finished the last few touches on the floor and while standing staring at the floor……..plans…….slowly……change……..AGAIN……haha. We are now going to build a dividing wall. The room with the floor is now going to be “Ken Supper Dupper Wood Working Room”. Now because the Chetwynd H.H (Home Hardware) is closed on Sunday, off me and Bev went to Dawson to get 17 – 2x4x8’s and 6 sheets 3/8 plywood to begin construction on the wall. Later renamed Kyles wall. All afternoon we measured, cut, measured again, thought about, attempt to cut, cut once more and then finally hammer it in place ( The Bull Moose Brothers are back), it was done. But we mustn’t forget as we were bulding that thing we call a wall, Bev was stuffing the turkey and preparing our Thanksgiving super. Now it being close to 6:30 the turkey should be close to done and we will all be able to sit down and relax after a good day of work.